Peru

`Settler societies' are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, …

Establishing Francisco Pizarro firmly as a man of his time, Stuart Stirling shows that there was little difference in moral terms between Elizabeth I's political expediency in …

Kun Pekka Lipponen saa kirjeen Perusta saakka, hän on hämmentynyt. Onko hänen maineensa tosiaankin kirinyt toiselle puolelle maailmaa? Mitä hän ylipäätään tietää Perusta? Kirje …

Part history and current affairs, part travelogue, this is the story of a journey made by Alistair Horne and American politician/journalist, Bill Buckley through Colombia, Peru, …

This multidisciplinary--indeed, transdisciplinary--combination of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research reveals how the Andean people of southern Peru's Colca …

A hilarious story of everyone's favourite bear, Paddington - now a major movie star When Paddington visits the Tower of London he makes sure he has enough marmalade sandwiches to …

A GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermottA SUNKEN …

This clearly written, cogently argued assessment of social and political mobilization in nineteenth-century Peru focuses on 5,000 Lima artisans, 70 percent of whom were black, …

In 1996, against the backdrop of Alberto Fujimori's increasingly corrupt national politics, an older woman in Lima, Peru - part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the …

Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people’s words in …